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John K. Campbell and his ethnography of the Sarakatsani: a defining moment for social research in Greece

September 20, 2019 Culture | Society

British anthropologist John K. Campbell (1923-2009) is recognized as one of the most important figures in Modern Greek ethnography. His research in the early 1950s among the transhumant shepherds of Northwestern Greece, the Sarakatsani, which led to the…

Dimitra Trypani on "The silent one", her experimental music theatre work

September 19, 2019 Arts in Greece

An old "honour" crime inspired Greek composer Dimitra Trypani to create The silent one, a work of experimental music theatre intended as an "alternative requiem", a contemporary choral ode. The play, which premiered at the Paxos Music Festival on 9 September…

Get ready for Animasyros 12 International Animation Festival

September 17, 2019 Culture | Society

Animasyros 12 is here with animation films from around the world, four competition sections, panoramas and tributes, imaginative collaborations, educational workshops for young and old, exhibitions and parties. In its 12th edition, renowned Animasyros…

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  Team led by Greek astronomer detected water vapour on exoplanet

  Sep 17, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Reading Greece: Panayotis Ioannidis on Poetry as an Art of Sounds and the Quest to Immortalise the Moment through Words

  Sep 17, 2019 Reading Greece
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  25th Athens International Film Festival: The Highlights

  Sep 16, 2019 Culture | Society
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  The BioPoC Project: Innovative diagnostic medical devices

  Sep 13, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Nikolas Karagiaouris on the past, present and future of Greek opera

  Sep 12, 2019 Arts in Greece
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  Roderick Beaton on the bicentenary of the Greek War of Independence

  Sep 11, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Yu Jian on the Revival of Modern Chinese Poetry

  Sep 10, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Drones made in Greece

  Sep 09, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  42nd Short Film Festival in Drama: Youthful and Mature

  Sep 06, 2019 Culture | Society
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  84th Thessaloniki International Fair – The colourful exhibition

  Sep 05, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  SigMag: Thessaloniki Special Issue

  Sep 03, 2019 Culture | Society
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  The Griffin Warrior unlocks secrets of the Mycenaean civilisation

  Sep 02, 2019 Culture | Society
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  “The Stones Speak” in Athens

  Aug 30, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Filming Greece | Yorgos Teltzidis and his stories of people in free fall

  Aug 28, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Reading Greece: Gerhard Falkner on Poetry as a Means to Generate New Images and Radically Changing Realities

  Aug 28, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Greek PM announces complete lift of capital controls

  Aug 27, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  1st Crete International Poetry Festival Underway

  Aug 23, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Konstantinos Kosmas on German-Greek Cultural Exchanges and the Edition Romiosini Publishing Program

  Aug 19, 2019 Reading Greece
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  A brief history of radio in Greece, and a small museum in the Peloponnese

  Aug 06, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Mikis Theodorakis: Music, politics, passion

  Jul 29, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Yannos Kourayos, bringing the archaeological site of Despotiko to life

  Jul 26, 2019 Arts in Greece
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  24 July 2019: 45 years since the Restoration of Democracy

  Jul 23, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  25th Kalamata Dance Festival

  Jul 18, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Vasiliki Petsa on the Multicultural, Multiethical and Multigenerational Nature of Greek Literature

  Jul 17, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Filming Greece | “Holy Boom”: Maria Lafi on her Resurrectionless Easter

  Jul 16, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Reading Greece: Aristea Papalexandrou on Poetry as a Creative Act

  Jul 13, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Lavrion, the first company town in Greece: foreign capital, industrial experience and multiethnicity at the turn of the century

  Jul 12, 2019 Culture | Society
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  The Fourth CIAM Congress of 1933 in Athens and the foundations of Western urbanism

  Jul 11, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2019: an opening to Diversity

  Jul 10, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Greek Parliamentary Elections: New government

  Jul 09, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  Greek parliamentary elections

  Jul 06, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  Bridges Awards: The new initiative for awarding the cooperation among Greeks all over the world

  Jul 04, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Discover Cape Sounion

  Jul 03, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Exhibition: "Picasso and Antiquity"

  Jul 02, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Maria Martzoukou on Greek-Finnish Encounters

  Jul 01, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Filming Greece | Angelos Frantzis: Whodunit is of little concern to me

  Jun 28, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Reading Greece | Sofka Zinovieff: "I have a strong belief in the resilience of Greeks"

  Jun 27, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Rethinking Greece | Elli Lemonidou on WWI in Greek Public History and cinema

  Jun 26, 2019 Rethinking Greece
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  Ntina Tzouvala on the history of international law and its impact on the Balkans

  Jun 25, 2019 Interviews
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  Reading Greece: Pavlina Marvin on the Absence of a National Book Policy and the Unifying Properties of Poetic Creation

  Jun 23, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Reading Greece: “Turkey: The Train of the Great Modernisation”. Interview with George Angeletopoulos and Evangelos Aretaios on hybrid identities and subverting the clichés

  Jun 21, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Fuad Kavur remembers Hadjidakis

  Jun 20, 2019 Culture | Society
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  REN21 GSR – Greece among top renewable energy countries

  Jun 19, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Filming Greece | Syllas Tzoumerkas on successfully getting out of quagmires

  Jun 18, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Reading Greece: Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke on Poetry as an Endless Source of Revival and the Creation of a New Poetic “Cosmogony”

  Jun 16, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Rethinking Greece | Interview with Moses Elisaf, the first Greek Jew to be elected Mayor

  Jun 13, 2019 Rethinking Greece
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  The third travel of Greek Animation to Annecy International Animation Film Festival

  Jun 12, 2019 Culture | Society
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  PM Tsipras requests the dissolution of the Parliament and snap elections

  Jun 11, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival 2019

  Jun 07, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Rethinking Greece: Artemis Leontis on the cultural biography of Eva Palmer Sikelianos and the modern reception of Classical Greece

  Jun 04, 2019 Rethinking Greece
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  H.E. Krister Kumlin: "The return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens is a question of moral principle"

  Jun 04, 2019 Arts in Greece
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  13th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival going strong

  Jun 03, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Art historian Alexandra Kouroutaki on Erotokritos’ intercultural substance and influence on Greek painting

  May 31, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Emilios Solomou on the Challenges and Prospects of Greek Literature Abroad

  May 29, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Athens Music Week - First edition

  May 29, 2019 Culture | Society
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  European elections results - PM calls snap national elections

  May 27, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  The battle of double elections is about to start

  May 25, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  Napoleon Maravegias: What is at stake in the European elections

  May 24, 2019 Opinion | Analysis
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  Meet the Hellinikon Project - Greece’s Mega Investment

  May 23, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Reading Greece: Yiannis Doukas on Poetry as a Means to Play with Form and Explore Language

  May 22, 2019 Reading Greece
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  How "brain drain" can turn into "brain circulation"

  May 21, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  “Disrupting the Gaming Industry: Greek Cash Rebate 35%”: Greece in Nordic Game for the third time (22-24 May 2019, Malmö, Sweden)

  May 20, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  Reading Greece: Maurizio De Rosa on Greek-Italian Encounters

  May 19, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Reading Greece | Richard Pine on the Durrell Library symposium "Islands of the Mind"

  May 16, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Arts in Greece | Vassilis Karamitsanis "The Greek National Opera has decisively entered a digital path"

  May 15, 2019 Arts in Greece
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  Filming Greece | 12th London Greek Film Festival: Interview with Director Christos Prosylis

  May 14, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Quo Vadis Europa? | Nikos Mouzelis on the future of Capitalism and Europe

  May 13, 2019 Quo Vadis Europa?
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  Reading Greece: Nikos Chryssos on the Physical and Meta-Physical Effect of Narration

  May 12, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Marika Karagianni: “Greece can become a natural gas transportation hub”

  May 10, 2019 Innovative Greece
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  Reading Greece | Dimosthenis Papamarkos: "I would like to see more works of the fantasy, sci-fi, and horror genre in Greek literature"

  May 10, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Arts in Greece | Kostis Georgiou: “Art’s purpose is to provide a zone of unlimited paths”

  May 09, 2019 Arts in Greece
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  Quo Vadis Europa? | Associate Professor Antonis Tzanakopoulos on Greek Foreign Policy, Brexit and Globalisation

  May 08, 2019 Quo Vadis Europa?
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  Hilary Roberts on German and British Photography in Greece 1940-1945

  May 08, 2019 Media & Greece
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  Michalis Sotiropoulos on the History of Greek Liberalism in the 19th Century

  May 07, 2019 Rethinking Greece
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  Filip Stojanovski on Fake News and Prespes Agreement

  May 06, 2019 Media & Greece
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  Reading Greece: Zisis D. Ainalis on Poetry as a Vault of Humanity’s Lived Experience, an Ark of Humanity’s Vicarious Memories

  May 05, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Labour Day in Greece

  Apr 26, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Public Diplomacy: Panagiotis Agrafiotis on the Discreet Charm of Press Officers

  Apr 25, 2019 Government | Policy
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  Easter traditions in Greece

  Apr 23, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Greece is entering a growth phase

  Apr 23, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Filming Greece | George Frentzos on the Art of Cinematography in Greece

  Apr 22, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Reading Greece: Dimitris Petrou on Folk Poetry and Demotic Tradition as Sources of Literary Inspiration

  Apr 21, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Between a “glorious past” and an “authentic present”: a brief overview of tourism in modern Greece

  Apr 19, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Quo Vadis Europa? | Vincenzo Le Voci on Club of Venice and the European Union

  Apr 18, 2019 Quo Vadis Europa?
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  Reading Greece: Petros Golitsis on the Interrelation between Poetry and Painting and the Political Nature of Art

  Apr 17, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Nikos Smyrnaios on the Internet oligopoly and its political implications

  Apr 17, 2019 Media & Greece
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  Filming Greece | Iro Siafliaki on doing away with unemployment as a spectacle

  Apr 17, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Four shipwrecks to become underwater museums

  Apr 16, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Fanis Papageorgiou on Simplicity as a Means of Poetic Expression

  Apr 14, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Reading Greece: Michalis Papantonopoulos on New Publishing Ventures Amid the Crisis

  Apr 11, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Meet “Demokritos” the biggest Research Centre of Greece

  Apr 10, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
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  Rethinking Greece | Dionisis Balourdos on Greece’s demographic transition and fertility policies

  Apr 09, 2019 Rethinking Greece
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  Reading Greece: Eftychia Panayiotou on Poetry as a Means to be Exposed to the Playful Complexity of our Realities

  Apr 07, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Antony Gormley installation on the island of Delos

  Apr 04, 2019 Culture | Society
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  Reading Greece: Asimina Xirogianni on the Interrelation between Poetry and Theatre

  Apr 03, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Rethinking Greece | Nikos Potamianos on economy, politics and everyday life in Athens at the turn of the 20th century

  Apr 02, 2019 Rethinking Greece
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  Filming Greece | Kostas Gavras on Tragedy, Power and Filmmaking in Greece

  Apr 01, 2019 Filming Greece
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  Misinformation and the Prespes Agreement

  Apr 01, 2019 Politics | Polity
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  Reading Greece: Maria Koulouri on the Relation of Poetry to the World it Inhabits

  Mar 31, 2019 Reading Greece
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  Reading Greece: Vangelis Hatzivassileiou on the Individual and Society in Modern Greek Fiction 1974-2017

  Mar 28, 2019 Reading Greece

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“4.1 miles” a student film by Daphne Matziaraki on the refugee crisis has been voted on ...

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Greece in the World: 6 foreign language websites

Starting from October 2015 the Secretariat General for Information & Communication ...

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Greece’s move towards universal health coverage

Fundamental vision of the reform efforts made by the Greek Ministry of Health, is the universal ...

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Reading Greece: Michaela Prinzinger on ...

Michaela Prinzinger was born in 1963 in Vienna, Austria. She studied Byzantine and Modern Greek ...

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Reading Greece: The Vision of Filippos Tsimpoglou ...

The National Library of Greece, under the direction of Dr. Filippos Tsimpoglou, General Director, ...

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Reading Greece: Vassilis Lambropoulos on New ...

Vassilis Lambropoulos has been C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek and Director of the Modern ...

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Restoring labour rights: a pilot project to ...

In a statement to Athens News Agency for May Day, Labour Minister Effie ...

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Rethinking Greece: Ares Kalandides on rebuilding ...

Ares Kalandides is a Berlin-based urban planner and consultant in place branding. He is the founder ...

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Rethinking Greece: Johanna Hanink on Ancients, ...

Johanna Hanink is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University, US. Her work focuses on ...

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Did you know that Greece offers many studying opportunities at Master’s degree level ...

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